Wikipedia talk:Australian Wikipedians' notice board

Requested move 22 June 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: not moved. No article titling criteria plays a part here, since this is not an article. But there is clearly no momentum in favour of moving this. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 00:36, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board → Australian Wikipedians' noticeboard – In most places on Wikipedia, there is no space between "notice" and "board", so this page might reasonably moved to a location that also has no space there. — Ⓜ️hawk10 (talk) 23:15, 22 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Oppose. No need to move an established page for a pedantic reason. WWGB (talk) 07:21, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose – The nominator's assertion is not quite true: see Category:Regional Wikipedian notice boards (~20 spaced, 2 unspaced). -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 07:32, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Support - If for no other reason, then consistency. Another option would be, merging (or redirecting) it to WikiProject Australia. -- GoodDay (talk) 09:12, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * So what about Canadian Wikipedians' notice board? WWGB (talk) 11:27, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Change that to "...noticeboard", too. GoodDay (talk) 19:06, 23 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Oppose. Pointless pedantry on a busy and long-established page. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 10:17, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose per Michael Bednarek's explanation... unnecessary JarrahTree 12:30, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose – Weak rationale. 5225C (talk &bull; contributions) 13:57, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose it's unnecessary to change Muzi (talk) 16:02, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Victorian Localities & Suburbs
Discussion regarding Victorian Localities & Suburbs. --ThylacineHunter  (talk) 11:15, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

WP:CIII "task force"
As this Noticeboard is listed as considering the B-Grade article Charles III as Top Importance, dropping by to notify you of an attempt to organise some sort of effort to improve it at least one quality notch. 109.255.211.6 (talk) 04:29, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

RFC on general & party elections
An RFC about intros of general & party elections, is being held. GoodDay (talk) 17:26, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Australia topicon
A couple of years ago I create an Australia topicon at template:WikiProject Australia topicon. It puts a small Australian flag at the top of your user, project or article talk page. When clicked on it brings you to the Australian project page.

It seems like I didn't advertise it enough - it has been marked for deletion (see Templates_for_discussion/Log/2023_October_22). But if it becomes more popular then it will probably be allowed to stay.  Stepho  talk 10:59, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Infection disease deaths by Australian state
Wikipedia guidelines say we should not categorize people "by place of death". Despite this we break down cause of death categories by country, and some Cades smaller. However not all causes if death are defining. It has been decided, although I am not sure exactly how, other than by what categories people create, that some infections disease deaths are defining. I am thinking we should categorize people by the specific disease that killed them if this is defining, and sub-divide these categories by country if we really need to split them. I do not think people should bd in more than one category that intersects place of death and cause of death. Many people from various colonies that later merged to Australia are in say Tuberculosis deaths in Australia and Infectious disease deaths in Victoria (state). I think this is excessive. In some cases people are thus in 4 death categories, year of death, century and cause of death intersection, place and cause of death intersection and then more precise place intersected with less precise cause. I think this is excessive. I really think we should list to at most 2 death related categories, 1-the year of death and 2-the cause of death, as precisely as it is logical to build a Category with as precise a location as it is reasonable to subdivide the cause of death at, and we should limit these second categories to causes of death where it is clear that it is really a defining thing. I do not think we should ever say "well, for some people this cause of death is defining, others it is not". This is not like an occupation where you can have had it for a little time, and so it is not defining for you. Your cause of death killed you, it is defining for you,so you belong in the group of people killed by it. Now some we do not know the cause of death, others it might be disputed, and some are such that it does not make sense to group people by it (the majority of articles on people who died are in only one death category, only by year of death). There might be a very few cases where 2 causes of death categories can be justified, but I would think most disputed or unclear cases of death we would just categorize by year of death. I bring this up here because the Wikipedia deaths Wikuproject is ignored, the categorization one seems little followed, and the cases I have seen most often of this excessive categories by death have related to Australia.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:44, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Seeking input, concerning Australian governor-general
Would appreciate input at this discussion. -- GoodDay (talk) 04:05, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

symbols - articles titles
This item should be here, rather than a low visit item at the NSW page -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Symbols_of_New_South_Wales#Requested_move_18_January_2024

discussion is required, as yet again it is an item that it affects the whole project... JarrahTree 00:52, 23 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for linking it here! This is the first time I've used the suggested move feature BaduFerreira (talk) 00:58, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

WikiProject Bendigo needs you!
WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. If interested, please add your name to the project's participants list and start editing! Lotsw73 (talk) 05:40, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Nick Blakey nickname - Thinking Man's Warwick Capper
Input is requested (particularly from editors familiar with AFL players) at, regarding whether that is a legitimate nickname. Mitch Ames (talk) 23:30, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Can someone access late 1970s Australian newspaper database?
I'm finalising an article on Goodie Reeve, for decades the most popular radio announcer in Australia. She apparently died in 1978; if someone has access to Oz newspaper databases from the time, it would be great if you could share DoB & DoD and anything from her later life would be great, thanks! Roisterer (talk) 06:33, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * She died died on 4 December 1978: -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 11:01, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Michael Bednarek Thanks Michael, much appreciated. Roisterer (talk) 01:26, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Roisterer you can use the The Wikipedia Library (or direct link) to access Newspapers.com and you can find her obituary and many other mentions of her in Australian newspapers. Anyone with over 500 edits should have access to this. Jimmyjrg (talk) 00:16, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Jimmyjrg - Thanks Jimmy. I do use the Wikipedia Library regularly and even had a look at it for this article but must been having a particularly senior moment when I looked. Roisterer (talk) 01:27, 10 February 2024 (UTC)